We come today to let you know about a wonderful competition that our good friends at Toradex are running. It's called the Toradex Design Challenge and is open for students and other individuals at education and research institutions. It's an ongoing competition with an annual prize pool of $100,000 so if you're still in school or are planning a return to university, fear not!

When we were first putting together Android applications for Project SHIELD, we learned a few important lessons about Android Manifests. Our early attempts at smooth deployments were sometimes slowed down by small errors in manifests, so we’d like to share here what we think are essential to giving your users a happy experience on Project SHIELD, as well as other Android platforms.

Simon Morris, Guest Blogger from Strawdog Studios
Welcome to the world of Android NDK. Please leave your debuggers at the door.
Veteran programmers of a certain age will happily recount old-school war stories where they’ve had marathon sleepless debugging sessions where bugs were discovered in DVD-only release builds at the 11th hour before shipping and that they managed to debug the problem and save the day using just printf and changing screen border colours when certain systems...

Once again, we are just weeks away from another awesome GDC event! We are thrilled to offer several ways to reach out to NVIDIA engineers and learn about new tools and techniques in the game development world. Be sure to bookmark our NVIDIA @ GDC 2013 events page to get the latest updates. In addition, don't hesitate to monitor our @nvidiadeveloper twitter feed for real-time news from the GDC floor.

The Tegra Android Development Pack(TADP) is the perfect companion for developing native Android applications, installing all of the software tools required to optimize for NVIDIA’s Tegra platform.
Tegra Android Development Pack 2.0r2 is updated with support for Android NDK r8b and all the latest Tegra development tools, including Nsight Tegra, Tegra Profiler and PerfHUD ES.
To download TADP, you must be a member of the Tegra Registered Developer Program. To join simply create a...